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☆ The Israel-Hamas war shows how social media has given up on facts
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

The Israel-Hamas war shows how social media platforms no longer want to deal with the news. AdvertisementAdvertisementNot too long ago, social media was the future of news. To accompany this flow of verified information, Facebook, Twitter and other social media companies built large content moderation teams and partnerships. Reading these, it's easy to see how social media can divide people during difficult times. The social media account posed as a BBC journalist to share this misinformation for engagement.

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☆ Meta's unique approach to developing AI puzzles Wall Street, but techies love it
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +18 min

If the world's leading AI researchers use Llama, Meta could have an easier time hiring skilled technologists who understand the company's approach to development. Spisak helped oversee PyTorch and other open source AI projects when he worked at Meta from 2018 until January 2023. Although a number of open source LLMs are available, Lambert said Llama 2 is by far the most popular. "Facebook was not and that's sort of how they move forward and democratizing this, giving sort of broad access to open source. However, open source doesn't always win, and Padval acknowledged that "in this case, I don't know how it's going to evolve."

Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Josh Edelson, Mark Zuckerberg's multibillion, Joseph Spisak, that's, Zuckerberg, Meta, Andrew Bosworth, Yann LeCun, isn't, Susan Li, Spisak, Cai GoGwilt, GoGwilt, OpenAI's, Ahmad Al, Dahle, he's, Jim Fan, Arjun Bansal, Jensen Huang, Nathan Lambert, Lambert, Critics, Umesh Padval, " Lambert, Nvidia's, Fan, Meta's, Taka Ariga, Ariga, Claude, Elon Musk, Tesla, Nur Hamdan, OpenAI's GPT, Sam Altman, Guido Appenzeller, Thomvest's Padval, Padval Organizations: Meta, AFP, Getty, Microsoft, Industry, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Facebook, Twitter, Finance, Google, AI Research, FAIR, Apple, Nvidia, Web Services, Thomvest Ventures, TC Cowen, United, United Arab Emirates, U.S, Government, AWS, Bloomberg, Amazon, VMware, Intel, Red Hat Locations: Menlo Park , California, Taiwan, United Arab, Washington, Elon, Hamadan, Seoul, South Korea

☆ Valerie Rivera, CFP, on how to help more Americans succeed as first generation wealth builders
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( Kiley Lambert | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Rivera recently shared her thoughts and expertise on several topics ahead of the CNBC FA Summit on October 12. Prior to FirstGen Wealth, Rivera previously worked at primarily large wealth-management firms including AllianceBernstein, Merrill Lynch and TIAA, serving clients with $5-10 million of net worth. CNBC: What advice would you give financial advisors who are trying to find more clients among what could be considered traditionally underserved communities? This isn't just about numbers; it's about creating a financial foundation that supports the life you want to live. Rivera: The financial planning space has been this rigid system of serving a specific demographic in a box.

Persons: Rivera, Merrill Lynch, It's, I've, let's Organizations: CNBC, Summit, AllianceBernstein, CNBC's Locations: Latina, TIAA, ShoreBank

☆ A Barcelona market used 5G to power an AR personal-shopper experience, helping tourists and locals alike shop smarter
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( Chris Stokel-Walker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

La Boqueria, a famed Spanish market, participated in a 5G trial that brought AR to shoppers. Remote shoppers could also see through the AR shoppers' goggles and get a taste for the market. AdvertisementAdvertisementTourists traipsing through La Boqueria, Barcelona's famed market on La Rambla, are presented with an array of amazing food and drink. In the La Boqueria project, that was down to less than 10 milliseconds, Aranda Legazpe said. The La Boqueria trial has concluded, but the technology worked — so technologists from Cellnex are now exploring other 5G-powered tools.

Persons: —, Cellnex, José Antonio Aranda Legazpe, Aranda Legazpe Organizations: Service, Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs, Cellnex Telecom Locations: Spanish, La, Catalonia, Spain, France, Portugal

☆ Amazon dominated the first cloud era. The AI boom has kicked off Cloud 2.0, and the company doesn't have a head start this time.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( Alistair Barr | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

There's a new stack of hardware, software, tools, and services that will power AI applications for years to come. Cloud 2.0Another key point here: Most AI developers already know how to use CUDA and Nvidia GPUs. Arguably, Nvidia has already created an AI cloud platform – as AWS once did for the Cloud 1.0 era. James Hamilton is an AWS cloud infrastructure genius who can take on Nvidia, even if the chipmaker has a major head start. Her startup spent months building a data center from scratch to help customers train AI models.

Persons: —, Jensen Huang, Nvidia Rick Wilking, Andrew Ng, CUDA, Michael Douglas, Bernstein, Douglas, Luis Ceze, Ceze, It's, Andy Jassy, Adam Selipsky, James Hamilton, Oren Etzioni, Claude, Dario Amodei, Anthropic Anthropic, Noah Berger, Sharon Zhou, Zhou, Lamini didn't, Etzioni Organizations: Amazon Web Services, Nvidia, Service, Home Depot, AWS, VMware, Cloud, Madrona Venture, Amazon, Amazon Web, Annapurna Labs, Intel, AMD Locations: San Francisco, Seattle, Selipsky

☆ Inside the consulting industry's race to become AI rainmakers
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Big consulting companies are racing to add to their offerings around artificial intelligence. That's the bet consulting companies have been making as they rush to build out their generative AI offerings. To help companies figure out how to use AI, the consulting giants are racing to scoop up companies that specialize in the technology. Consulting firms' push to bulk up on AI comes as many workers are worried that AI bots will snatch their jobs . That same month, Deloitte introduced a set of services called Quartz AI to help clients use technology like GenAI.

Persons: —, they're, OpenAI's ChatGPT, They're, Sawhney, ChatGPT, Steve Chase, he's, Chase, EY EY, EY, PwC PwC, PwC, Shannon Schuyler, Bain, BCG Organizations: Service, Accenture, McKinsey, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, Deloitte, LinkedIn, Fortune, KPMG, Microsoft, KPMG US, Bain Bain & Company, Boston Consulting, OpenAI, Deloitte Deloitte, Nvidia, QuantumBlack, QuantumBlack Labs Locations: Mexico

☆ People are criticizing a major women-in-tech event, saying its jobs fair was dominated by pushy men
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Lindsay Dodgson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

People are criticizing a women's tech conference after it was flooded by men. AdvertisementAdvertisementA tech conference celebrating women and non-binary people in computer science sparked a backlash after people said it was dominated by men. "Instead of feeling inspired and energized, I feel drained and overwhelmed," one woman named Nandini Agarwal wrote, saying she waited in line for hours to get in. "Chaos was the word of the day," wrote a woman named Preeti Ladwa. Another woman named Nivrithi Garimella said left one line "due to unchecked men displaying aggressive behavior, ganging up to trample women completely."

Persons: Grace Hopper, —, Gabby, Lily Li, It's, Li, Nandini Agarwal, I've, Preeti Ladwa, Nivrithi Garimella, AnitaB, Bo Young Lee Organizations: Service, US Navy, AnitaB Locations: Computing, Orlando

☆ Microsoft's Jaron Lanier says AI advancing without human dignity will 'undermine everything', including reality
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The future of AI is set to be "spiritually, politically, and economically" corrosive, Lanier said. He noted that people building AI tech should let go of sci-fi wish fulfillment. He noted that, while this year has been the "year of AI," next year the world is going to be "flooded, flooded with AI-generated music." A deluge of generative AI content, from simple search prompts to eerie deepfakes, is now up for broad government regulation. In addition to AI-generated content nixing human connection found through creative works and causing an eventual collapse of the creative economy, Lanier said AI-generated content that can be perfected and customized also undermines peoples' "sense of reality.

Persons: Lanier, —, Arianna Huffington's, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Lucian Grainge, Grainge, Kali Hays Organizations: Service, Microsoft, Universal Music, Twitter Locations: khays@insider.com, @hayskali

☆ OpenAI offers a way for creators to opt out of AI training data. It's so onerous that one artist called it 'enraging.'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( Kali Hays | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Artists and image owners can now ask OpenAI to remove their images from DALL-E training data. OpenAI recently unveiled a new form that image owners and creators can use to request that owned or copyrighted images be removed from DALL-E training data. AI models need high quality, and human generated training data to perform well. "Enraging"Toby Bartlett, an artist with a namesake consulting firm, wrote on Threads that OpenAI's DALL-E opt-out process is "enraging." Or, as OpenAI put it, its model will have "learned from their training data" and be able to "retain the concepts that they learned."

Persons: —, OpenAI, Toby Bartlett, OpenAI's, Greg Madhere, He's, it's, we've, We've, Kali Hays Organizations: Service, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, US Copyright, Twitter Locations: khays@insider.com, @hayskali

☆ Teens get hundreds of phone alerts per day, report finds
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( Kristen Rogers | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Teens get as many as 237 or more notifications each day on their smartphones, according to a new report. But some teens used their phones for more than six hours during that time. … This research bears itself out 100%,” said John Duffy, a Chicago-based psychologist who wasn’t involved in the report, via email. “When I lost my phone … I didn’t have a phone for a week, and that week was amazing. Adults could do more to help teens and children develop healthier habits for phone use, experts said.

Persons: ”, Jenny Radesky, Mott, shouldn’t, “, John Duffy, wasn’t, ” Duffy, James P, Steyer, ” Steyer, Neha Chaudhary Organizations: CNN —, University of Michigan, Mott Children’s Hospital, American Academy of Pediatrics ’, Excellence, Social Media, Mental Health, Advisory Council, Council, CNN, Media, Massachusetts General Hospital, Modern Health Locations: Chicago, Massachusetts

☆ A.I. Excels at Making Bad Art. Can an Artist Teach It to Create Something Good?
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Zachary Small | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +15 min

“Is It Good Enough to Fool My Gallerist?” David Salle, one of America’s most thoughtful painters, hoped an A.I. “We are sending the machine to art school,” Salle quipped, before expounding on the principles of light, shadow, depth and volume that good painting requires. Safe to say that nobody would mistake this image for a Salle painting. Salle’s style has changed over the years, which made capturing his essence a little more challenging for an algorithm. Put through the blender of a machine, Salle’s art becomes a remix: a pastiche of pastiches.

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The result was Joy, which uses artificial intelligence to suggest bite-sized mindfulness activities for people based on how they are feeling. It really helps me quickly de-stress before I have to do things like job interviews,” he said. The AI is supposed to recognize how you are feeling from your voice, then suggest short activities. The app is available for a $8 monthly subscription, with a discount if you subscribe for a whole year. It’s a work in progress, and as it goes with AI, the more people use it, the more accurate it becomes.

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☆ AI-Driven Cataclysm Could Rock the Job Market: Top Economist
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Aki Ito | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +33 min

Over the course of three conversations this summer, Acemoglu told me he's worried we're currently hurtling down a road that will end in catastrophe. "There's a fair likelihood that if we don't do a course correction, we're going to have a truly two-tier system," Acemoglu told me. "I was following the canon of economic models, and in all of these models, technological change is the main mover of GDP per capita and wages," Acemoglu told me. In later empirical work, Acemoglu and Restrepo showed that that was exactly what had happened. "I realize this is a very, very tall order," Acemoglu told me.

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☆ From rolling out OpenAI's GPT-4 to employees to preventing $27 billion in fraud, Visa exec Rajat Taneja opens up about the payments giant's AI playbook
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Bianca Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Visa relies on AI for mission-critical tasks like processing payments, detecting fraud, and securing its massive network infrastructure. It has more than 300 AI models that are live and operating. "AI is going to be a huge part of how we grow, but it'll also be part and parcel of everybody's work," Taneja said. Visa continues to experiment with similar AI models, like Meta's AI model Llama 2 and those from French-American company Hugging Face, Taneja said. Visa introduced AI models that ingest billions of data points every day to train on, learn patterns, and identify any cybersecurity or payment-security threats.

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☆ Craigslist founder Craig Newmark is pouring millions of dollars into combating AI's dark side
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

Since the 2015 debut of Craig Newmark Philanthropies, the entrepreneur has donated many millions of dollars to various causes involving media and technology. Newmark, 70, spoke to CNBC as he was recovering from a minor heart procedure he went through in late August. At the same time, he's worried that tech companies, particularly in social media, "aren't even trying anymore to get rid of stuff they know is dishonest," he said. "Protecting kids when it comes to AI is a big issue," Newmark said, regarding his donation to Common Sense Media. Within journalism, Newmark's most high-profile endeavor is the City University of New York's Craig Newmark Graduate School in Journalism.

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☆ Deutsche Bank's chief innovation officer lifts the hood on the German bank's AI strategy as it hires hundreds and runs dozens of pilots
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Bianca Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Deutsche Bank is aggressively experimenting with AI capabilities to transform the bank. Then they cut to black before text came into focus to provide intel on Cymbal, a hypothetical corporate client of Deutsche Bank. Deutsche Bank is aiming to transform the business and work of banking. There's a lot of assumptions," Gil Perez, Deutsche Bank's chief innovation officer, told Insider. The bank will need to compete for in-demand AI tech talent, a market that is only set to heat up.

Persons: Gil Perez, Perez, Tamara Bitticks, Bitticks, There's Organizations: Deutsche Bank, DB, intel, Google, Deutsche, Bankers, Wall, genAI Locations: San Francisco, Washington

☆ In U.S.-China AI contest, the race is on to deploy killer robots
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +26 min

In this high-tech contest, seizing the upper hand across fields including AI and autonomous weapons, like Ghost Shark, could determine who comes out on top. This could become critical if the United States intervened against an assault by Beijing on Taiwan. Cheap and expendableThe AI military sector is dominated by software, an industry where change comes fast. Still, the available disclosures of spending on AI military research do show that outlays on AI and machine learning grew sharply in the decade from 2010. The Costa-Mesa, California-based company now employs more than 1,800 staff in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.

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REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration//File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsSTOCKHOLM, Sept 7 (Reuters) - UNESCO on Thursday published its first guidance on use of Generative AI (GenAI) for education, urging governmental agencies to regulate the use of the technology, including protection of data privacy and putting an age limit for users. Students have also taken a liking for GenAI, which can generate anything from essays to mathematical calculations with just a few line of prompts. Among a series of guidelines in a 64-page report, UNESCO stressed on the need for government-sanctioned AI curricula for school education, in technical and vocational education and training. While China has formulated rules on GenAI, the European Union's AI Act is likely to be approved later this year. The Paris-based agency also sought to protect the rights of teachers and researchers and the value of their practices when using GenAI.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, OpenAI, GenAI, ChatGPT, Bard, Stefania Giannini, Supantha Mukherjee, Aurora Ellis Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, UNESCO, Microsoft, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Rights STOCKHOLM, China, Paris, Stockholm

☆ Tech Chiefs to Gather in Washington Next Month on A.I. Regulations
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-28 | by ( Cecilia Kang | More About Cecilia Kang | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

insight forums” are closed-door listening sessions for lawmakers as they try to craft regulations for A.I. Mr. Schumer, the majority leader, said the sessions were intended to educate members of Congress on the risks posed by A.I. To influence the debate, some tech chiefs have voiced their views on A.I. Last month, the White House announced that Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta had agreed to voluntary safeguards around their A.I. Mr. Schumer said he would host forums to learn about the risks and potential opportunities of A.I.

Persons: Chuck Schumer, Elon Musk, Sundar Pichai, Sam Altman, OpenAI, Satya Nadella, Jensen Huang, Eric Schmidt, Schumer, A.I, Axios, Altman, Musk Organizations: Elon, Tesla, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Capitol, Lawmakers, White House, Meta, IBM, A.I, Mr Locations: New York, Washington, A.I, States, Europe, United States

☆ This Dutchman moved to San Francisco a year ago to help tech giants prepare for new EU rules
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-25 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

De Graaf, a 30-year veteran of the European Commission, was tasked with resurrecting the EU office in the Bay Area. The generative AI boomGenerative AI was a virtually foreign concept when de Graaf arrived in San Francisco last September. In June, the European Parliament cleared a major step in passing the EU AI Act, which would represent the EU's package of AI regulations. Tech companies that have for years criticized the EU for overly aggressive regulations are now asking, "Why is it taking you so long?" The rapidly changing landscape of generative AI makes it tricky for the EU to quickly formulate regulations.

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☆ CFPB to crack down on data brokers, Chopra says at White House event
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-15 | by ( Chelsey Cox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

WASHINGTON — The White House on Tuesday held a roundtable examining potential harmful data broker practices as part of an overall strategy to protect Americans' privacy. The CFPB's new rule proposals will build upon the FCRA to hold data brokers that sell highly sensitive information more accountable. One proposal, said Chopra, will define a data broker dealing in certain types of consumer data as a consumer reporting agency and the brokers' sale of data as a consumer report. Another will clarify whether credit header data, the portion of a credit report that contains identifying information, can be considered a covered consumer report. "We applaud the steps the Consumer Protection Financial Bureau is taking to stop data brokers from unlawfully collecting and selling millions of Americans' sensitive data," she said.

Persons: WASHINGTON, Chopra, There's, Arati Prabhakar, Lael Brainard, Lina Khan, Brian Boynton, Khan, Brainard Organizations: Consumer, Fair, White, Office of Science, Technology, National Economic Council, Federal Trade, Justice Department's Civil, FTC, Protection

☆ San Francisco moves to center of robotaxi universe after California agency vote
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Greg Bensinger | Thomson Reuters | Greg Bensinger Joined Reuters As A Technology Correspondent In Focusing On The World'S Largest Technology Companies. He Was Previously A Member Of The New York Times Editorial Board | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Cruise and Waymo have been running experimental services limited by times and geographic areas within San Francisco. The approval “marks the true beginning of our commercial operations in San Francisco,” said Tekedra Mawakana, Waymo co-CEO, in a prepared statement. San Francisco is important as both a symbolic hub of tech and, with hundreds of AVs already in operation, the largest test lab for the experimental cars. The vehicles, with empty driver seats and self-turning steering wheels, have become a common sight around San Francisco. Commissioner Genevieve Shiroma advocated for a delayed vote noting the volume of public comment and her lingering concerns following evidence that the vehicles have obstructed emergency vehicles in San Francisco.

Persons: Heather Somerville, Waymo, Motors ’, John Reynolds, AVs, Cruise, ”, Tekedra Mawakana, Prashanthi Raman, Uber, Genevieve Shiroma, Greg Bensinger, Jamie Freed, Diane Craft Organizations: General Motors Corp, REUTERS, FRANCISCO, Motors, California Public Utilities Commission, Transportation, Cruise, Locals, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, Technologists, Thomson Locations: San Francisco, California, U.S, San Francisco's, Francisco

☆ Want to work in tech? Don't work in tech.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Tien Tzuo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

I advise young engineers today to work for Fortune 500 companies, not Big Tech. Today, however, he's working on a project for a different kind of tech company: John Deere. There is no magic at Big Tech companies, there's only money. And Fortune 500 companies simply don't have the luxury of buying talent just to park it. Today, all companies are tech companies, and they all want to see more recurring revenue in their business models, which means they need smart, restless engineers.

Persons: moonshots, Jon Weisz, John Deere, Weisz, Peter Thiel, that's, Philips, Ford, Tien Tzuo, Tzuo Organizations: Fortune, Big Tech, Corporations, Oracle, Apple, Nike, Honeywell, Volvo, Boeing, Whirlpool, Technologists, Facebook, Consumer, SEI, Microsoft, EV, Cornell, Stanford Locations: Columbia, Baltimore, Hulu, Atlanta, Salesforce

☆ San Francisco drives tech; will it drive away robot taxis?
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Greg Bensinger | Thomson Reuters | Greg Bensinger Joined Reuters As A Technology Correspondent In Focusing On The World'S Largest Technology Companies. He Was Previously A Member Of The New York Times Editorial Board | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

[1/3] A Cruise self-driving car, which is owned by General Motors Corp, is seen outside the company?s headquarters in San Francisco where it does most of its testing, in California, U.S., September 26, 2018. Futuristic test vehicles from Cruise and Waymo are a common sight in some parts of San Francisco. The vote comes at a critical time for San Francisco, which is grappling with thousands of tech job losses, firms leaving the city, and COVID-era work-from-home policies that have contributed to a hollowed out downtown. loadingRamón Iglesias, another San Francisco resident, said that though he’d seen the videos and some erratic behavior from the cars, he supports the expansion and worries any further obstacles could drive tech companies away. “We have a very strong Luddite segment here in San Francisco and you see places like Las Vegas and Miami go out of their way to embrace tech,” said Iglesias, a data scientist.

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☆ Inside Prague's Institute of Crypto Anarchy — where they're plotting to bring down the dollar
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-06 | by ( Mackenzie Sigalos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +19 min

Today, that union of minds finds refuge in Prague in a retrofitted factory building called Paralelní Polis, or "parallel world." The dark stucco of Polis' Prague headquarters is an outlier among the ornate, brightly-colored buildings that tower over it. ETHPrague 2023 was held at Paralelní Polis in the Czech Republic Pavel SinaglThe 'parallel world' concept is sticky. The Vienna branch goes so far as to self-describe as a living example of how "the Paralelní Polis cryptoliberation virus is spreading." The most popular Czech bitcoin YouTuber boasts 90k subscribers, while the annual Czech-only bitcoin conference called Chaincamp attracts around 2000 visitors, even during the bear market."

Persons: Czech Republic Pavel Sinagl, Ztohoven —, Ztohoven, provocateurs, Václav Benda, Dan Ligocký, Ligocký, William Lobkowicz, ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum, Pavel Sinagl, Prague MacKenzie Sigalos, Holy, William, Ileana Lobkowicz, Josef Tětek, Tětek, isn't, biohacking, —, Carl Menger, Friedrich Hayek, BTCPrague, Michael Saylor, Satoshi cryptographer, Adam Back, Saifedean Ammous, bitcoin, Gary Gensler, bitcoin maximalist, Vaclav, — Matěj Žák, Jan Čapek, Christoph Kassas, YouTuber Jakub Vejmola, Jameson Lopp, Stephan Livera, Robert Breedlove, Stani Kulechov, Ondrej Polak, Czech Republic Pavel Sinagl Ligocky Organizations: Paralelní, CNBC, European Union, Polis, of Cryptoanarchy, Austrian, Securities, Exchange, Czech Craft, U.S, Treasury, Casa, Ethereum Foundation, Czech Blockchain Association, optimist Locations: Paralelní Polis, Czech Republic, Czech Republic Pavel Sinagl PRAGUE, Czech, Bohemian, Prague, It's, Polis, Polis —, Lobkowicz, Nazi, Vienna, Barcelona, Bratislava, Slovakia, Košice, Austrian, ., Alza, Bohemia, Europe, Old Town, Holešovice

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